Gisèle Pelicot (center) attends a hearing in an appeal trial filed by one of the 51 people convicted in a mass rape trial, at the courthouse in Nimes, France, Oct. 8, 2025. But by standing up to her abusers in court and demanding they be ashamed, France's Gisele Pelicot has become a feminist champion. More than three months of sometimes gruelling hearings,... A horrifying, monthslong mass rape and drugging trial concluded in France Thursday, with Dominique Pelicot and 49 other men all found guilty of the rape or sexual assault of his former wife ... Pelicot ’s ex-husband, Dominique Pelicot , and all but one of his co-defendants were convicted of sexually assaulting her over a period of nearly a decade.
